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This book analyses the political thought and practice of Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866-1915), preeminent liberal leader of the Indian National Congress who was able to give a 'global voice' to the Indian cause.
Using liberalism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism and citizenship as the four main thematic foci, the book illuminates the entanglement of Gopal Krishna Gokhale's political ideas and action with broader social, political and cultural developments within and beyond the Indian national frame. The author analyses Gokhale's thinking on a range of issues such as nationhood, education, citizenship, modernity, caste, social service, cosmopolitanism and the 'women's question,' which historians have either overlooked or inserted in a rigid nation-bounded historical narrative. The book provides new enriching dimensions to the understanding of Gokhale, whose ideas remain relevant in contemporary India.
A new biography of Gokhale that brings into consideration current questions within historiographical debates, this book is a timely and welcome addition to the fields of intellectual history, the history of political thought, Colonial history and Indian and South Asian history.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Why Gopal Krishna Gokhale?
Thematic foci and chapter preview
Literature and sources
Chapter 1: Liberalism
The promises of Western education
Teacher and journalist
Learning at Ranade's feet
Coming to the political fore
Amidst 'the stormy and uncertain sea of public life'
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Nationalism
Geographical entity or nation?
From India to Indians: A civil religion
Building the nation beyond the nation
Accommodating difference: The Muslim question
National pedagogies: The 'depressed classes'
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Cosmopolitanism
A Hindu in the heart of empire: A passage to England
Campaigning for the Indian cause in the metropole
A liberal empire?
The Universal Races Congress
A moral education for the Indian youth
The South African question: A means to other ends?
Diaspora, empire and nation
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Citizenship
Envisioning citizenship, making citizens
Serving India?
Teaching temperance
Social rights between welfare and charity
Mass education, national development, democracy
Conclusion
Conclusion
Index
